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OfflineSnape
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My parents are always putting me down..
    #3178574 - 09/25/04 10:25 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Hello, it's the first time I have a real big problem that needed to be discussed.

My entire life is music. I constantly read about music, I play guitar, I have two bands... And I barely have time for my job and my parents want me to become a workaholic like them. They are so materialist, it's disgusting. When they dissaprove with something I do, they always put me down, telling me that I'll live in a tiny apartment smoking pot and drinking beer all the time. I know it'll never be the case, because I stopped smoking everything a while ago.

They seem to be sewn in their stereotypes, it gets so on my nerves, you can't know how much !! I know me and my bandmates can make it big, we have the talent, the energy, the passion and most importantly, the will to succeed. I know I'm not the first one to say that kind of stuff, but it's only when you put your arms down that you realize all else failed. And I can't allow it to fail, I just can't.

So right now I need to keep on "not smoking" and focusing on my music, without hearing the horrible comments from my close-minded parents.

What do you all think?


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I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3178631 - 09/25/04 10:52 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

i have a similar situation dude. my parents are like yours and i love music just like you, its my life. though im not in a band at the moment, and thats killin me. but i think my parents are probably a lot worse. i wont get into it though. actually i dont really have any advice because im struggling myself. I just wanted to say it's a bit similar to some aspects i have in my life. so i can relate a bit. good luck bro.


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"Fear is the great barrier to human growth." ~ Dr. Robert Monroe



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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Locus]
    #3178667 - 09/25/04 11:13 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Your parents don't beat you so they aren't that bad.

My Mom didn't like my guitar skills much either. I have almost perfected screaming as singing and she used to hate me practicing.

Neighbors calling the cops for us disurbing the peace didn't help either.


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: MAGnum]
    #3178763 - 09/25/04 11:45 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

yes, actually my parents did beat me. im old enough and strong enough now where i can defend myself though, to the best of my ability. and thats with a chronic pain problem that keeps me bedridden and stuck in this house. so don't tell me that. you have no idea. WTF magnum.


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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ~ Albert Einstein
"Fear is the great barrier to human growth." ~ Dr. Robert Monroe



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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Locus]
    #3178775 - 09/25/04 11:53 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

I was adressing to Snape's situation.

I didn't mean for the reply to go to you (I got the impression it was like that with you and I made a mistack with the "reply to" option).

I never got beat, but I have put up with tremendous verbal/emotional bullshit and have come out loving those people anyways.

If my father was actually in my life I would have probably gotten the shit smacked out of me since he used to beat my Mom. Who knows, man I really didn't mean to offend you Locus, I would never reply to what you said in that way.


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: MAGnum]
    #3178780 - 09/25/04 11:56 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Ok, good because that got me really upset. I never tell anyone this stuff, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. I've basically lived on the brink of suicide for the past 5 years.

It's ok man.


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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ~ Albert Einstein
"Fear is the great barrier to human growth." ~ Dr. Robert Monroe



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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Locus]
    #3178809 - 09/25/04 12:07 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Shit man, that's rough. The stresses I have gone through have made me suicidal at times as well. I can only immagine your situations.

All I have to say is hang in there.


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3178810 - 09/25/04 12:08 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

hey man, just hang with it. thats all i can tell you, i mean, music is my life, just like it sounds with you. i have a band thats starting to get really well known in the local scene, im in the process of starting an indie record label, and now my thumb got mangled in a machine. (theres a thread about it in here somewhere) its tough shit man, but if you really love what your doing, you just have to power on through it and keep going for no one else but yourself.

my parents have supported me along the way, spotting me money for insurance on venues, helping me fix amps, etc. , but i know how you must feel. the guitarist in my band has a similar problem, except for him his dad was a jazz drummer that worked with elton john and shit, and his dad doesnt respect anything musical my guitarist has accomplished. that might be worse than your parents being total squares and not understanding.
but to succeed in music, you arentr doing this for your parents, no ones parents wholeheartedly want thier kid to become a professional musician, my parents see it as a hobby thier supporting me in. if you want to be pro, your doing it for yourself, and your bandmates.
so fuck them, and just keep on keepin on.


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3178915 - 09/25/04 12:53 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Let me guess.... your 22, living at home, no job, your mom cooks for you every meal, but dude, YOUR GOING TO MAKE IT BIG ONE DAY!

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: MAGnum]
    #3179066 - 09/25/04 01:48 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

fuck, now im really upset. not because of you though. just a lot of bullshit is going on, and a lot just happened, and i cant fucking take it. these things happen all the time. There's no way out. I can't.. :frown: Sorry snape, im done posting in here.


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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ~ Albert Einstein
"Fear is the great barrier to human growth." ~ Dr. Robert Monroe



~~~*Dosis sola facit venenum*~~~

*Check my profile to listen to my music* :smile:

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OfflineKidShelleen
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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3179108 - 09/25/04 02:06 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Snape,

It could be worse. At least your parents give a shit about what happens to you. Some don't.

Your parents are probably trying to help you in the best way they know how. Maybe they aren't very skilled at it and maybe they don't understand the importance to you of what you are trying to do and maybe they don't understand any values other than their own. But there is a good chance they understand a few things you don't. They probably understand how few musicians there are that make a decent living making music. They probably understand that drifting from one crappy minimum wage job to the next while you try and make your music career happen will make it very difficult for you to ever do any better than that if your music career doesn't take off. And they probably understand that while being dirt poor when you are young is not so bad, being dirt poor when you get old is fucking hell and by then you can't do shit about it. Knowing this shit makes them afraid for you. Being afraid for you and having you not understand why they are afraid for you makes them frustrated and pissed off.

Maybe you can make some kind of contract with them like "get off my back for one year and if by the end of that year my band hasn't burned a cd or played 10 paying gigs (or some other measure of progress) then I'll quit one of the bands, get a full time job (or whatever it is that they think you should be doing)". That way they can feel that they are doing their duty as parents and you have a chance to prove that you are for real about your career in music.

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OfflineSnape
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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3183633 - 09/26/04 07:31 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Thank you everyone for the advice. My power-metal band is especially going extremely well, we have completed our 25 mins setlist for a battle of the bands show called Emergenza. My parents are still bitching and moaning and calling me names I won't mention here, but I go through it, I don't give a shit about them. I found a way of finding inner-peace in me, I started taking Northern Shaolin kung fu classes.


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I'm floating in the sea of stars,
I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
I'll make the stars shine again

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3183988 - 09/26/04 09:08 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Snape said:
Thank you everyone for the advice. My power-metal band is especially going extremely well, we have completed our 25 mins setlist for a battle of the bands show called Emergenza. My parents are still bitching and moaning and calling me names I won't mention here, but I go through it, I don't give a shit about them. I found a way of finding inner-peace in me, I started taking Northern Shaolin kung fu classes.




How old are you? Your living at home, under their expenses, yet you "don't give a shit about them". I can't see why they have a problem with you.... hmmm.

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OfflineSnape
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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: looner2]
    #3184018 - 09/26/04 09:17 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

I'm 19, I don't have much of a well-paid job to get an appt, trust me, if I could go away from them I would. Just read my original post if you want to see why they have a problem with me.


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I'm floating in the sea of stars,
I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
I'll make the stars shine again

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3185078 - 09/27/04 02:38 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Maybe you should wake up and join the real world. The world that says you have little to no chance to be able to survive as a 'starving artist'.

Go get a job, move out, do what you want then.

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Barbi]
    #3185473 - 09/27/04 07:09 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

mndfreeze said:
Maybe you should wake up and join the real world. The world that says you have little to no chance to be able to survive as a 'starving artist'.

Go get a job, move out, do what you want then.




You know I don't listen to people like you, why bother giving me advice?


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I'm floating in the sea of stars,
I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
I'll make the stars shine again

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3185754 - 09/27/04 09:49 AM (19 years, 5 months ago)

the best thing you can do for yourself is get a job that pays enough to move out. They will control you if you don't. I lived too long with my parents. Soon they told me everything to do they even told me how I was to spend the money I made.

Every job I got was not good enough for my father. My mother on the other hand wanted to keep her baby at home. My father thought (and still does)he was better at all things. No matter what I did. Soon I just gave up and did everything to hurt him and in the long run ended up runing my own life. Now I'm finally standing on my own and I really don't give a shit what he thinks. I am finally happy. I just wonder what my life would have been like if I had moved out after graduation.

Do whatever you can to grt out on your own. They will end up killing your dreams.


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3186235 - 09/27/04 12:17 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Snape said:
Quote:

mndfreeze said:
Maybe you should wake up and join the real world. The world that says you have little to no chance to be able to survive as a 'starving artist'.

Go get a job, move out, do what you want then.




You know I don't listen to people like you, why bother giving me advice?




"people like me"

That must mean the people who tell you how things really are, and not just what you want to hear. No sympathy for ADULT aged KIDS who live at home and wonder why mommy and daddy bitch at them to go get a job and stop being slackass fuckoff's. If your music was SO important to you, you would be doing everything you could to do it, including NOT living at home.

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Barbi]
    #3186327 - 09/27/04 12:44 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

mndfreeze said:
Quote:

Snape said:
Quote:

mndfreeze said:
Maybe you should wake up and join the real world. The world that says you have little to no chance to be able to survive as a 'starving artist'.

Go get a job, move out, do what you want then.




You know I don't listen to people like you, why bother giving me advice?




"people like me"

That must mean the people who tell you how things really are, and not just what you want to hear. No sympathy for ADULT aged KIDS who live at home and wonder why mommy and daddy bitch at them to go get a job and stop being slackass fuckoff's. If your music was SO important to you, you would be doing everything you could to do it, including NOT living at home.




What the fuck do you think I'm trying to do? You really think I just sit back and wait until an apartment falls from the sky for me to live in? I asked for advice in this forum, I don't need your stupid OTDish bitching.


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I'm floating in the sea of stars,
I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
I'll make the stars shine again

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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3186372 - 09/27/04 01:06 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Hey,

I can relate.  My parents were always very negative and emotionally invalidating and cruel, and in some situations resorted to physical violence.  What I realize now (many years later) is that they were parenting the only way they knew how.  They had good intentions, and while I didn't think so at the time, I realized that they treated me that way because they loved me.  It sounds strange, but it was absolutely true. 

This didn't make their actions right and I am still trying to move past everything with them, but I've forgiven them because I know they thought they were doing the right thing...even if they weren't.  I fully admit that I was a terrible daughter.  I expected them to respect me, but I rarely gave that respect back in return.  I was very, very selfish in my relationship with them.  I shudder to remember it and I wish I could change the past.

I don't claim to understand your relationship with your parents, but perhaps the same type of thing is going on. 

I can only suggest to move out ASAP.  If they are being really horrible, you owe it to yourself and them to get the hell out of there.  One day you may want to have a meaningful relationship with your parents and living there right now and fighting with them only compromises this.  I can never take back the things I said to my parents, and they can never reverse the torment I went through under their roof.  I regret each and every month I spent there when I could have gotten my shit together and moved out.  Living with my parents after maturity and fighting with them has made my life so much more difficult, even years later.  We're all still trying to heal the damage done on both sides. 

I know you said you're looking to move out, and that's good to hear.  There's two sides to every story, and your parents probably don't even realize how they're hurting you, but at the same time, are you doing everything you could do as a son?  Respect goes both ways, as I'm sure you know.  I'm glad you found martial arts as a useful outlet to ease your frustration...good for you. 

Definately keep looking for a place of your own.  Empathy for your parents could help you understand where they are coming from.  I'm not saying to excuse their hurtful actions, but gaining a new perspective is always a useful tool in our relationships with others. 

Good luck and never give up on your dreams.  :heart:


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: Snape]
    #3186812 - 09/27/04 02:39 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Snape, i like you man i really do but i find myself caught in the middle here. Right in between your artistic aspirations and Freezy's real world advice. I really hope you and your band win that best band competion, perhaps there is studio time as a reward as well? Go for it with all your heart, mind and soul, if i lived in Montreal i'd be your biggest fan :wink:


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Re: My parents are always putting me down.. [Re: FreakQlibrium]
    #3187065 - 09/27/04 03:47 PM (19 years, 5 months ago)

Hehe thanks for supporting me. I know that mndfreeze is trying to show me that there are only 0.1% of the bands in the world that have success. That is only a huge motivator for us to try and be included in that 0.1%. It'll be really hard, I know that and always have seen it coming, I am ready to do everything humanly possible.

For the studio time, the entire show is recorded for every bands to have their own demos. That's one of the greatest things about Emergenza. I'll fill you all in when the show'll be done in january.

Thanks to everyone for the advices, you are the greatest.


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I'm floating in the sea of stars,
I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
I'll make the stars shine again

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